"Watching Jamila sometimes made me think the world was divided into three sorts of people: those who knew what they wanted to do; those (the unhappiest) who never knew what their purpose in life was; and those who found out later on. I was in the last category, I reckoned, which didn't stop me wishing I'd been born into the first."

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Source : Hanif Kureishi (2009). “The Buddha of Suburbia”, p.90, Faber & Faber

Hanif Kureishi

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Wish Quotes

“As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually.”
“In general, with things unpleasant, the rule is: The sooner you hit bottom, the faster you surface.”

Source : Joseph Brodsky (2011). “On Grief And Reason: Essays”, p.115, Penguin UK
“I treasure a core value of humanity and that guides people why they act the way they do. I will use this to show other people how they can understand each otherâ€¦ as one, we can help society.”
“I say you are a coward and you are; I think you hunt only to reassure yourself that you are not what you are: the weakest thing to ever walk the Earth. He will come for me and then we will be gone, and you will be helpless for all your hunting, because Westley and I are joined by the bond of love and you cannot track that, not with a thousand bloodhounds, and you cannot break it, not with a thousand swords.”
“My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.”
“In the meditation, of course, the question is repeated and repeated until you run out of answers - or so I hear.”
“I can finally see that all the terrible parts of my life, the embarrassing parts, the incidents I wanted to pretend never happened, and the things that make me "weird" and "different," were actually the most important parts of my life. They were the parts that made me ME.”

Source : Jenny Lawson (2012). “Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)”, p.233, Pan Macmillan
“And the rigidity of the material with which we have to compose, is a more formidable opponent than Lasker or Capablanca. Because these lifeless opponents do not have any moments of human weakness!”

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